Objetivo
Consumers have increasing demands for healthy, nutritious, and innovative food produced sustainably. Minor cereals can address these points, as well as contributing to feed and non-food markets. However, they have been hardly developed as commercial varieties, with no major investment to exploit genetic diversity in breeding programmes, and have low yields. There has been little research to optimise agronomy, food processing and marketing.
HealthyMinorCereals will apply state of the art methods for genetic characterisation and phenotyping of >800 genotypes of 5 minor cereal species (spelt, rye, oat, einkorn and emmer). The project will select traits related to yield, nutritional quality and disease resistance, especially targeting important and emerging crop diseases, to identify well characterised genotypes for development of minor cereal varieties and cross breeding. Field experiments in 4 contrasting climatic zones in Europe will optimise agronomy within the organic and low-input sector, addressing gene x environment interactions, fertilization and potential benefits of agronomic management suited to improve yields in each country, and culminating with innovative on-farm trials.
The project will investigate variation in nutritional quality of selected genotypes and analyse biological effects of seed extracts in human cell lines. Parameters of grain important for food manufacture will be investigated with optimisation of milling and other processes to maximise nutritional quality. Food industry partners will use selected minor cereal grains to develop new food products that will be demonstrated with production trials, standardisation and sensory analysis. A study on market potential will investigate factors involved in the development of minor cereals in various European markets and develop a framework for enhancing this potential. The project consortium has a major involvement of SME partners involved in breeding, farming, and food production with minor cereals.
Ámbito científico
- ciencias naturalesciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexasciencias de la atmósferaclimatologíazona climática
- ciencias agrícolasagricultura, silvicultura y pescaagriculturaagronomía
- ciencias médicas y de la saludciencias de la saludnutrición
- ciencias agrícolasagricultura, silvicultura y pescaagriculturagranos y semillas oleoaginosascereales
Convocatoria de propuestas
FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage
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Régimen de financiación
CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs)
Coordinador
16106 Praha 6
Chequia
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Participantes (16)
78832 Stare Mesto
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17037 Praha
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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BB11 2AL Burnley
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34956 Istanbul
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5070 Frick
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8714 Feldbach
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48309 Jogeva Alevik
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1180 Wien
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14558 Nuthetal Ot Bergholz Rehbrucke
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34125 Kassel
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La participación finalizó
00 681 Warszawa
1174 Budapest
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14558 Bergholz Rehbrucke
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